Thomas Paine: “It means arbitrary power in an individual person; in the exercise of which, himself, and not the res-publica, is the…”

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.